National: Mets All-Star Wright may miss season

From Wire Reports

Published Monday, August 17, 2009

NEW YORK --Mets slugger David Wright was released from the hospital and put on the disabled list Sunday, one day after he was hit square on the helmet by a 94 mph fastball from San Francisco's Matt Cain.

When asked if Wright could miss the rest of the season, New York manager Jerry Manuel said it's "a possibility" depending on how further tests come out. The club placed him on the 15-day DL after a 3-2 victory over the Giants.

Team spokesman Jay Horwitz said the All-Star third baseman was examined by a neurologist Saturday night and again Sunday morning before being sent home. Wright still had a headache and was experiencing "post-concussion symptoms," Horwitz said.

Kuroda OK

PHOENIX -- Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Hiroki Kuroda was released from the hospital Sunday morning and cleared to fly home with the team after taking a liner off his head in the sixth inning of Saturday night's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The cheery prognosis had no effect on Kuroda's feelings about the scary play.

"Yes, I feel lucky. I feel lucky to be alive and to be able to get back on the mound again," Kuroda said after Los Angeles' 9-3 victory over Arizona on Sunday. "You never know what is going to happen in this game."

Vick

NEW YORK -- Michael Vick says he cried in prison because of the guilt he felt about being involved in dogfighting.

In an interview with "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday night, Vick said the day he walked into prison he realized "the magnitude of the decisions that I made.

"And, you know, it's no way of, you know, explaining, you know, the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights," he said.

Pro wrestling

MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. -- Pro wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle has been arrested on charges of possessing a human growth hormone and violating an order of protection in suburban Pittsburgh.

Angle was arrested about 7:50 a.m. Saturday in a Robinson Township strip mall parking lot. His girlfriend, who said she obtained a protection order about 1 12 hours earlier after the two fought Friday night, alleged that he had circled the lot staring at her as she sat in a coffee shop.

Olympics

BERLIN -- The U.S. Olympic Committee had everything to lose and nothing to air.

That made the decision to postpone plans for its own television network, in deference to the International Olympic Committee's wishes, an easy one.

"There is no question that we underestimated the intensity of the reaction that we got from multiple constituents," USOC chairman Larry Probst said Sunday. after meeting with IOC president Jacques Rogge and deciding to postpone the effort.

The negative reaction came mainly from the IOC and TV partner NBC. All of it seemed to be hurting the effort to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago.